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RUMORS OF NAPOLEON'S MOVEMENTS AND ARREST -- JUNE/JULY, 1815
Bonaparte quitted Paris on the 30th ult. with six carriages and six. Accounts disagree as to his destination. According to one, it was his intention to proceed to Havre -- others state that he had taken the route to Cherbourg.
A letter from Rouen, dated July 3, mentions in a postscript, that "Bonaparte has been taken in his flight, there will now be an end to the calamities of the world." We hope this intelligence will ultimately be confirmed, but considerable doubts are at present entertained of its accuracy.
ANOTHER LETTER
The principal interest that was excited today respected the
person of Bonaparte. We had put into our hands a letter from
Rouen, dated 3rd instant, in which it was stated that Bonaparte
had been arrested in his flight; and, knowing the quarter to
which this communication was made, we endeavoured to ascertain
the credit it deserved. We do not find that it was believed. We
found, on application at the public offices, that the same
intelligence, and on the same authority, had reached Downing
Street, but here also it had been listened to with distrust,
because the dispatches, in a paragraph not given to the public,
stated that Bonaparte had taken a different road, if Rouen should
have been the situation where the arrest took place -- Whatever
may be the truth, the present belief of Ministers is that
Napoleon left Paris on the 30th or 29th, and that he travelled by
Evereux, Caen, and Bayeux, to take shipping at Cherbourg, and a
very few hours will probably remove the uncertainty.
In addition to the Gazette Extraordinary we have been favoured,
by a near relation of a distinguished officer, with the only copy,
not in the hands of Ministers, of the general orders given
immediately after the arrangement under which Paris was
surrendered, and they are in the following terms: (not yet
transcribed)
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